There’s always room for Jell-O! Even though General Foods shut down the Jell-O factory in LeRoy, New York nearly 50 years ago, the wiggly gelatin has a home in the Jell-O Museum. It was invented here back in 1897. Did you know the first four Jell-O flavors were orange, lemon,...
Apparently there’s such a thing as corkscrew collecting. One can go to several museums around the world from France and Italy to California and Vancouver. Located in Mènerbes in Southern France, Corkscrew Museum #1 has over 1500 pieces displayed, including several 17th century pieces. Owned by a local winery proprietor...
One of my first posts on this blog was about famous death masks from museums around the world. But what I really want to know is where I can find the largest collection of death masks in, I don’t know, the Ukraine? Well, I’m in luck. At the One Street...
I think it’s time for another online museum. We haven’t covered one since last December. Actually come to think of it…we’ve only done four. If you’d like to catch up, there’s the Condiment Packet Gallery, Adapter Museum, Digital Snow Museum (sounds nice, but I’m not that hot) and Museum of...
Following the Old Style Julian calendar (the Gregorian calendar was not introduced in Soviet Russia until the 14th of February 1918) today is the 98th anniversary of the murder of Rasputin. I just finished two books (and beginning a third) on Tsar Nicolas II and the Romanovs, so I have...
Happy Summer Solstice! It’s also World Music Day, Go Surfing Day and the 223rd birthday of the state of New Hampshire. Sorry, I didn’t get you anything but I didn’t think you’d mind, considering I only drove through you once on my way from Massachusetts to Maine. Not sure if...
A few years ago I took a road trip through Iowa, which included a stop in Mason City. I visited the town not because I am a devotee of The Music Man but due to its large number of Prairie School buildings. Yes, this architecture nerd even stayed at the...
Happy Pride y'all! The Schwules Museum in Berlin was the world’s first gay museum. It opened 27 years ago above Schwuz, a gay nightclub, in the Kreuzberg area of the city and is dedicated exclusively to LGBT topics.
With Chicago’s heat index reaching anywhere from 98 to 103, I really want to stick my head in a bucket of ice, move into a walk-in cooler and drink lots of cold lemonade. While doing this, I’ll try to take time out of my comatose-like state to thank the man...
I’m a bit busy at the moment, so busy I can’t devote one minute to researching and writing about a new scary museum. So many thanks to museumwork for this old post on one of the creepy dolls at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West. Robert the Doll...
